ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Monday announced to observe a countrywide strike on August 8 in remembrance of the lawyers who died on the day in Quetta last year. The announcement was made by PBC Vice Chairman Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon and PBC Executive Committee Chairman Hafeezur Rehman. They said that the strike was being observed to condemn the terrorist attack that took place on August 8, 2016 in Quetta, in which about 60 lawyers were killed and hundreds injured. They appealed to the lawyers’ community across the country to hold condolence references and meetings for the martyrs in their respective bar councils. Published in Daily Times, August 8th 2017.